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Recommend an alternative genre Album for a pow day?
Though I DID search bar this, most album suggestions were rap, hip hop, or metal, which isn't really my favorite when skiing pow. Anyone know any good alternative genre albums that I should torrent before skiing some pow tomorrow.
No alternative rock is a very accepted genre. Franz Ferdinand, Strokes, White Stripes, etc.
It's more like alternative rock has kinda transitioned into "indie rock," which doesn't really refer to the independence band's label anymore, instead has just become a new way of referring to rock music not completely in the mainstream.
Do i ever!? Theyre the sickest, whitest motherfuckers on earth. Also they're from norway so i kindof have to. Also, seeing them in Zurich 28-29 of march!
Yeah I would say indie rock/indie pop for those two. Wild Nothing kinda leans into shoegaze a bit on some of their other stuff. Generationals has some pop rock stuff.
Genres are dumb though. It's weird how we all want to categorize everything in life haha
White Stripes (well, anything that Jack White touches) IS rock. There is absolutely no way Jack White is 'alternative' or 'indie'.
So... I just looked into the wiki page for all this. Alternative turned into Indie, and Alternative was the name the gave all rock from the 80's till we started calling it indie that remained real rock. I guess when metal came around, and rock started really branching off into it's sub genre's they called everything that wasn't metal, or stuff that got dancey (modern 'pop' if you will) alternative. Punk, grunge, and everything in between would have been considered 'alternative'. Which to me, just means they changed the name of rock itself to alternative to try and separate themselves from metal and what has now turned into pop, but it was actually the truest form of rock, which is why I don't think 'alternative' was never a real genre but more of an umbrella term, which is what rock is.
I mean, when you can have NOFX, REM, and Nirvana considered to be the same genre and you don't call that genre rock, you're just fooling yourself. They just changed the name of Rock to Alternative, then eventually Indie.
All of this has inspired me to listen to some good old 90's rock. Silverchair anyone?
Just gonna name a bunch of bands with albums I enjoy as they come to mind. Alt-j. Pheonix. Young the giant. Twenty one pilots. The 1975. Grouplove. Arctic monkeys. Atlas genius. Bastille. The black keys. Imagine dragons. Phantogram. Switchfoot. The neighborhood. Foster the people.
There's a lot to unload here for possibilities, but I saw someone posted some New Order.
AND this song is on my playlists, dunno how I overlooked it, but Built to Spill is still a great route for a more "rock" alternative brand. All geneology bullshit aside... my favorite New Order track for riding, total feel good vibez:
Oh no, alternative rock is unquestionably a genre, same goes for the various other alternative offshoots like alt hiphop. I just meant that alternative alone isn't a genre. You're totally onpoint with it mostly being referenced as indie despite being supported by large labels too.
lol are you fucking kidding me? I think jack white fits the definition of "indie" quite literally. If "indie" is still short for independent, well then how independent is breaking up your highly popular, highly acclaimed band to pursue a solo career and creating your own label?
